Develop the skills required to conduct and recruit for an effective user interview. Draft a research plan and write a discussion guide for interviews. Compare products in the same space or in adjacent industries.

Week 1:
Intro To Class & Intro to UX
User Research (interviews and contextual Inquiry)

Week 2:
Business Analysis, User Flows, Task Analysis
Personas, Scenarios and Communicating User Research

Use research to create an affinity map that identifies trends and insights within your research findings and create personas that reflect the target audience. Apply sketching techniques to ideate through solutions.

Week 3:
Sketching, Wireframes & Layout
Information Architecture, Sitemaps & Navigation

Week 4:
Interaction Design, Mobile Patterns & Visual Design
Prototyping, Usability & User Testing

Explore methods for organizing complex and diverse types of content.  Discuss struggles with feature prioritization and vision alignment and how to address them.

Week 5:
Feature Prioritization & MVP
Business Model Canvas

Week 6:
SDLC and PM Models
Contracts, Business Models, Equity and Valuation

Describe the respective technical capabilities of responsive sites and native mobile apps. Evaluate options and choose what format is most advantageous to your final project.

Week 7:
Web Development, HTML, CSS, Javascript
App and Game Development Strategies

Week 8:
Final Project Presentations
Portfolio Workshop

You will apply the methods and techniques learned in class to a real Mango Concept client project. This client work will be broken into 4 distinct sections correlating to the 4 main topics of class; User Experience Strategy, User Experience Design, Product Management and Technology Development. This work will then be turned into a professional portfolio case study for the use of finding employment.